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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.


Isaac Asimov

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ISAAC ASIMOV The machines do not solve problems with greater insight than men do, only faster. Only faster!
ISAAC ASIMOV Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
IMMANUEL KANT Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
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ISAAC ASIMOV A closed mouth gathers no feet.
ANONYMOUS A rolling stone gathers no moss.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Who gathers thistles, may expect pricks.
UNKNOWN A closed mouth gathers no foot
PROVERB A rolling stone gathers no moss.
SYRUS PUBLILIUS SYRUS Who gathers thistles, may expect pricks
PROVERB Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thin...
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SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Wisdom is greater than knowledge,but imagination is greater than both wisdom & knowledge.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) All the honey a bee gathers during its lifetime doesn't sweeten its sting
ITALIAN PROVERB A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.
OLIVER HERFORD The conscious mind is awake only to falsehood, corruption and attachment. It gathers in the assets o...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB This is the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you.
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NORHAFSAH HAMID Wealth acquired by vanity shall be diminished; but he that gathers it by labor shall increase.
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CORY DOCTOROW that even the most casual of compliments can be given that extra little touch that women adore.
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ISAAC ASIMOV He who gathers money little by little makes it grow. Proverbs 13:11
BIBLE He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
ST. BASIL He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love
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HENRY DAVID THOREAU It's his arm action. Then, he gathers himself well on the mound and lets it go. (Olson) even comment...
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THOMAS PAINE The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection
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MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives ...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives ...
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ISAAC ASIMOV Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light w...
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MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water...
H. RIDER HAGGARD Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially n...
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AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB Everybody gathers together, your parents and relatives and you don't go to sleep. The custom is to s...
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JOHANN VON GOETHE In fact, once when I imprinted on a young lady’s lips a chaste and fatherly kiss for about five mi...
ISAAC ASIMOV Innumerable surveys have made it quite clear that when a respectable elderly man makes up to a giggl...
ISAAC ASIMOV We must not be taken in by the myth of youth, the unending propaganda to the effect that young men a...
ISAAC ASIMOV The fact of the matter is that young men lack skill and experience and are very likely to approach a...
ISAAC ASIMOV Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.
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MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Pale, beyond porch and portal,/ Crowned with calm leaves, she stands,/ Who gathers all things mortal...
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ISAAC ASIMOV A poor idea well written is more likely to be accepted than a good idea poorly written
ISAAC ASIMOV A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First o...
ISAAC ASIMOV The trouble is that racial stereotypes, unfavourable to everyone but white men of northwest European...
ISAAC ASIMOV To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to...
ISAAC ASIMOV A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. [Th...
ISAAC ASIMOV I am the beneficiary of a lucky break in the genetic sweepstakes.
ISAAC ASIMOV Nunca dejes que la moral te impida dejar de hacer lo que está bien
ISAAC ASIMOV It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to unlearn
ISAAC ASIMOV The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eure...
ISAAC ASIMOV To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
ISAAC ASIMOV Estamos constantemente al borde de lo incognoscible, e intentando entender lo que no puede ser enten...
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